ADAMS, Kirstine and Andrew BYRNES BYRNES, AndrewGender Equality and the Judiciary : Using International Human Rights Standards to Promote the Human Rights of Women and the Girl-child at the NationalLevel : Papers and Statements from the Caribbean Regional Judicial Colloqu ium, Georgetown, Guyana. pbk.Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 1999, ISBN:0850925770 ADAMS, Kirstine and Andrew BYRNES. Gender Equality and the Judiciary : Using International Human Rights Standards to Promote the Human Rights of Womenand the Girl-child at the National Level : Papers and Statements from the Caribbean Regional Judicial Colloquium, Georgetown, Guyana, 14-17 April 1997 . Edited by Kirstine Adams and Andrew Byrnes. (London): Commonwealth Secretariat, (December 1999). Pp. [i]-xii,1-289,(1). 8vo, illustrated pink and purple card covers. "This publication presents papers contributed by seniorjudges, lawyers, academics and representatives of international and non-go vernment organisations involved in promoting the human rights of women and the girl-child. It provides an overviw of international and regional human rights of women, highlights the importance of using a gender perspective injudicial decision-making, examines challenges involved in promoting the hu man rights of women and the girl-child in domestic litigation, and exploresways in which international human rights standards can be relied on to ens ure gender equality at the national level." - from the rear cover. "Legislation on Violence against Women in the Areas of Sexual Offences, Domestic Violence and Sexual Harassment: Comparison with International Standards and Existing Commonwealth Caribbean Legislation"; "Using General Human Rights Instruments to Advance the Human Rights of Women"; "Using Gender-Specific Human Rights Instruments in Domestic Litigation: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women"; "Gender and the Judiciary; Confronting Gender Bias"; "International and Regional Standards of Women's Rights: Their Importance and Impact on the Domestic Scene - the Position in Zimbabwe "; "Domestic Litigation and the Advancement of Women's Rights: Perspectives and Experiences from the South Pacific"; "The Relevance of International Standards to Constitutional Litigation in the Commonwealth Caribbean: A General Survey with Emphasis on Gender Equality Issues "; "International Labour Standards of Particular Relevance to Women Workers: Application in the Caribbean "; "Equality Jurisprudence under Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutions Litigation relating to the Human Rights of Women, Eastern Caribbean "; "Protecting and Promoting the Rights of the Girl-Child in Commonwealth Jurisdictions with Emphasis on Commercial Sexual Exploitation "; "Protecting and Promoting the Rights of the Girl-Child in Caribbean Jurisdictions"; and more. Very good. 60.00

AGNEW, VijayResisting Discrimination : Women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean and the Women's Movement in CanadaUniversity of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1996, ISBN:0802006744 AGNEW, Vijay. Resisting Discrimination : Women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean and the Women's Movement in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (1996). First Printing. Pp. (6),[vii]-x,(2),[3]-292,(2). 8vo, greycloth with metallic purple lettering to front and spine. "In her introduct ion to 'Resisting Discrimination', Vijay Agnew quotes Keibo Oiwa: 'We rarely encounter accounts of what the persecuted themselves felt, thought, wished to do, and actually did or failed to do; what meanings they attached to their thoughts and actions.' As Agnew observes, there is little Canadian feminist literature, from a minority perspective, on racism in feminist practice. 'Resisting Discrimination' is ground-breaking book. Focusing on the experiences of women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, the volume exploresthe realities of race, class, and gender discrimination in twentieth-centu ry Canada. Agnew uses an integrated approach, adopting methodologies from political science, hiostory, sociology, and women's studies to investigate history and politics of Asian and black women throughout this century and the exclusion of these women from theory and practice of mainstream feminism.She also looks at the relationship between the state and community-based o rganizations of immigrant women, and the struggles of these women to provide social services to non-English-speaking working-class women through theircommunity-based organizations. Agnew's views are critical of white feminis t theories and practices. Her goal is to sensitize the reader to another perspective and to empower minority women by making them the subject of theirown recent history and politics. She seeks to open up the possibility of f uller cooperation among feminists across lines of race and class, and to suggest new lines of development for feminist theories and methodologies." - from the introductory blurb. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Experience of Race and Gender Discrimination; 3. Race, Class, and Feminist Theory; 4. Race, Class, and Feminist Practice; 5. The Politics of Discourse; 6. Systemic Racism; 7. Women's Community Organizations; 8. Immigrant Women and the State; 9. Immigrant Women and Wife Abuse; 10. Conclusion. Very good. 25.00

ANDERSEN, MarnieWomen of the West Coast : Then and Now.1993, ISBN:0969698607 ANDERSEN, Marnie. Women of the West Coast : Then and Now. Illustrated by Tage Andersen. (Sidney, B.C.) : Sand Dollar Press, (September1993). Second Printing. Pp [i]-xvi,[1]-189,(1). Illustrated. Maps. 8vo, illustrated blue card covers. “Vancouver Island's rugged west coast has always attracted people with a dream, those who relish a challenge, or those seeking to live their lives amidst surroundings that nourish the spirit. Many of these individuals have been women.” (from the back cover). Among these were the women of the lighthouses; “a former ballet dancer and long distance sailor who has become a respected authority on whales”; and others. Name expunged from inside front cover, else very good. 15.00

ANDERSON, DorisRebel Daughter: An Autobiography. First Edition in dustjacketKey Porter, Toronto, 1996, ISBN:1550137670 ANDERSON, Doris. Rebel Daughter : An Autobiography. (Toronto) : Key Porter,(1996). First Printing. Pp 288 + plates. 8vo, black cloth. Doris Hilda And erson, (b. November 10, 1921 in Calgary - d. March 2, 2007, Toronto) . "As the editor of Chatelaine magazine from 1957 to 1977, Doris Anderson blazed a trail for Canadian women. Long before Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was published, Anderson's editorials on abortion, women in the work force, child care, divorce settlements, custody arrangements, pay equity, and female sexual fulfilment challenged the prevailing social order and laid thefoundation for the feminist movement in Canada. [...] This fascinating and insightful autobiography describes that sometimes turbulent childhood in D epression-era Alberta and Anderson's years as a teacher in one-room schoolhouses. It follows her efforts to establish herself as a professional journalist in Toronto in the late 1940s, and records the frustrations and triumphs of an immensely capable woman coming up against a male-dominated journalistic establishment. [...] Finally, Rebel Daughter documents Anderson's timeas head of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, when she led the fight that resulted in one simple statement being enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms : men and women are equal under thelaw." - from the dj. Very good in dustjacket. 20.00

ANDREW, Caroline and Sanda RODGERS, eds. RODGERS, Sanda, ed.Women and the Canadian State / Les femmes et l'Etat canadien. First Edition, hardcover.McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 1997, ISBN:0773514236 ANDREW, Caroline and Sanda RODGERS, eds. Women and the Canadian State / Lesfemmes et l'État canadien . Edited by Caroline Andrew and Sanda Rodgers. M ontreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, (1997). First Edition. Pp. (4),[v]-xxvii,(1),[1]-364. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering to front and spine. Contents: 1. Lorenne M.G. Clark's "Reminiscences and Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Commission's Report"; 2. Monique Begin's "The Canadian Government and the Commission's Report"; 3. Freda L. Paltiel's "State Initiatives: Impetus and Effects"; 4. Catherine Frazee's "Do State Initiatives Make a Difference?"; 5. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafrond's "Patriarchy and Paternalism: The Legacy of the Canadian State for First Nations Women"; 6. Wendy Moss's "The Canadian State and Indian Women: The Struggle for Sex Equality Under the Indian Act"; 7. Teressa Anne Nahanee's "IndianWomen, Sex Equality, and the Charter"; 8. Mary Jane Mossman's "Families an d Family Law": 9. Carol Smart's "Feminist Interventions and State Policy"; 10. Nancy Sullivan's "Pay Equity in Manitoba"; 11. Pat Armstrong's "Pay Equity: Not Just a Matter of Money"; 12. Marie Murphy's "Pay Equity in Quebec"; 13. Diane Lamoureux's "Les services féministes - de l'antiétatisme à l'intégration subsidiaire"; 14. Jane Ursel's "Considering the Impact of the Battered Women's Movement on the State: The Example of Manitoba"; 15. Martha Flaherty's "Inuit Women and Violence"; 16. Florence Bird's "Reminiscences ofthe Commission Chair"; 17. Maureen O'Neil and Sharon Sutherland's "The Mac hinery of Women's Policy: Implementing the RCSW"; 18. Naomi Alboim's "Institutional Structure as Change Agent: An Analysis of the Ontario Women's Directorate"; 19. Marie Lavigne's "Structures institutionnelles en condition féminine - le cas du Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec"; 20. Nitya Iyer's "Disappearing Women: Racial-Minority Women in Human Rights Cases"; 21. Joanne St. Lewis's "The Entire Woman: Immigrant and Visible-Minority Women";22. Maria de Koninck's "Les femmes et l'État - questions de santé reproduc tive"; 23. Dyane Adam's "L'État et les groupes de femmes: un partenariat pour le meilleur ... our pour le pire?"; 24. Jane Jenson's "Competing Representations: The Politics of Abortion in Canada"; 25. Claire Bonenfant's "Les femmes et l'État canadien". "Canadians Can No Longer Expect As Much From Their Governments. Rights formerly guaranteed by our 'welfare state' are disappearing. Social spending has been cut drastically in an attempt to combat recession, globalization and restructuring, and the deficit.The decline of the welfare state poses special risks for women. The policies, benefits, and services of the welfare state are directly linked to women's basic freedoms. The welfare state employs women to deliver services such as childcare, home-help, nursing, and social work. In turn, these services have meant that women can enter the paid labour force, provide for dependants, and leave abusive relationships. Access to political resources have helped women to form solidarities, alliances, and organizations. In Women and the Canadian Welfare State, scholars from environmental studies, law, social work, sociology, and economics explore the changing relationship between women and the welfare state. They examine the transformation of the welfare state and itsimplications for women; key issues in welfare state debates such as social rights, family and dependency, and gender-neutral programs and inequality; women's work and the state; and the role of women as agents of change.Wome n and the Canadian Welfare State explains not only how women are affected by changes in policy and programming, but how they can take an active role in shaping these changes. It bridges an important gap for scholars and students who are interested in gender, public policy, and the welfare state." Very good. 40.00

ANDREW, Joe.Women in Russian Literature, 1780-1863. First Edition in dustjacket.St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988, ISBN:0312016263 ANDREW, Joe. Women in Russian Literature, 1780-1863. New York : St. Martin's Press, (1988). First Printing. Pp. (6),vii,(1),1-201,(6). 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "This book is the first of its kind. Using the critical innovtions and revolutionary insights of Anglo-American and French feminist thinking, Joe Andrew seeks to offer radically new interpretations of the 'classics' of the golden age of Russian literature. Analysing themajor works of Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov and Turgunev amongst others from these perspectives, the author is able to identify a tendency which, contrary to the myth of the 'strong woman' of Russian literature, usually marginalises women or openly denigrates them within the age-old misogynistic tradition of Western culture. Only with the 'new Eves' of Turgunev and Chrnyshevsky do Russian fictional women begin to escape the 'cages' or 'cellars' in which the almost exclusively male canon had confined them." - from the dustjacket. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Prelude: Radical Sentimentalism or Sentimental Radicalism?; 3. Alexander Pushkin and his True Ideal; 4. Mikhail Lermontov and A Rake's Progress; 5. Nikolay Gogol: The Russian 'Malleus Maleficarum'; 6. Ivan Turgenev and the 'New Eve'; 7. Nikolay Chernyshevsky andthe Real Day. With bibliography and index. Very good lightly nicked and sp ine-sunned dustjacket. 40.00

Biographies of women from the Maritime Provinces of Canada who had significant experience of seafaring in the age of the merchant sailing ship. Women featured include Cora Hilton, Abigail Ryerson, Annie Cochrane, Glorana Fownes, Alice Coalfleet, Grace and Kay Ladd, and Amelia Holder.

"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cora Hilton and other Maritime women like her experienced firsthand the perils and pleasures of life at sea. These venturesome women went to sea largely to be with their captain husbands, and while some buckled under the pressures of solitude, boredom, bad weather, mutiny, and shipwreck, others rose to the challenge of living at sea, proving themselves useful time and again far beyond their roles as companions. On occasion, women with navigational skills - precursors to the professional seafaring women of the twentieth century - were called upon to bring the ship and its crew safely to port. Luckily for us, many of these seafaring women were faithful and sometimes gifted journal keepers. Author Donal Baird collects these writings and sets them against the backdrop of the halcyon days of the great square-riggers and their sad but inevitable decline. Here Cora Hilton, Abigail Ryerson, Annie Cochrane, Glorana Fownes, Alice Coalfleet, Grace and Kay Ladd, Amelia Holder and others recount, in their own words, their impressions of the exotic places they visited, the homes they made and the children they raised afloat on the seas, and how they survived it all, oftentimes as the only woman in a society of men." - from the rear cover.

BAIRD, Donal. COALFLEET, Alice). FOWNES, Glorana). RYERSON, Abigail).Women at Sea in the Age of Sail. First Edition, SignedNimbus Publishing, Halifax, 2001, ISBN:1551092670 BAIRD, Donal. Women at Sea in the Age of Sail. (Halifax, NS) : Nimbus Publishing, (2001). First Edition. Pp (6).[1]-226. Maps, nearly 50 b&w photos and other illustrations in the text. 8vo illustrated pale purple cardcovers, with photo on front. Biographies of women from the Maritime Provinces of Canada who had significant experience of seafaring in the age of the merchantsailing ship. Women featured include Cora Hilton, Abigail Ryerson, Annie C ochrane, Glorana Fownes, Alice Coalfleet, Grace and Kay Ladd, and Amelia Holder. "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cora Hilton and other Maritime women like her experienced firsthand the perils and pleasures of life at sea. These venturesome women went to sea largely to be with their captain husbands, and while some buckled under the pressures of solitude, boredom, bad weather, mutiny, and shipwreck, others rose to the challenge of living at sea, proving themselves useful time and again far beyond their roles as companions. On occasion, women with navigational skills - precursors to the professional seafaring women of the twentieth century - werecalled upon to bring the ship and its crew safely to port. Luckily for us, many of these seafaring women were faithful and sometimes gifted journal k eepers. Author Donal Baird collects these writings and sets them against the backdrop of the halcyon days of the great square-riggers and their sad but inevitable decline. Here Cora Hilton, Abigail Ryerson, Annie Cochrane, Glorana Fownes, Alice Coalfleet, Grace and Kay Ladd, Amelia Holder and othersrecount, in their own words, their impressions of the exotic places they v isited, the homes they made and the children they raised afloat on the seas, and how they survived it all, oftentimes as the only woman in a society of men." - from the rear cover. Contents : Introduction: Earlier Times; 1. Whaling Wives [Mary Doane Coffin on the Margaret Rait, &c]; 2. The GlamorousClippers [Cordelia (Sterling) Waterman - Eleanor Creesy - Mary Ann Patten] 3. On the World Trade Routes [Sara Ann (Osborne) Smith - Virginia (Walker) Slocum - Emily (Morris) Spicer - Abigail Ryerson - W.D. Lawrence, A Man Le ft Ashore (William D. Lawrence) - The Liverpool Connection]; 4. The Parker Women [Bessie Parker - Annie (Parker) Cochrane - Lilly Parker - Ida Parker]; 5. Glorana (Price) Fownes; 6. Survivors [Ordeals in Open Boats - Criccieth Castle's People - The Milton - The Loss of the Lizzie Troop - Mutiny and Fire -The Happy Home (barque from Hantsport)]; 7. Alice Coalfleet's Family [The Tragedy of the Loodiana]; 8. Fundy Families [The Marriage of JosephineReid - Della and Josie Corning - Beulah Gullison - Ida (Congden) Crowe; 9. Amelia Holder's Diary; 10. The Navigators [Helen (Smith) Grant - Bessie Ha ll - Logs and Diaries]; 11. Family Life at Sea [Grace (Brown) Ladd's Letters - Kay Ladd's Story ]; 12. Windjammer Years; 13. Cora Hilton's Wedding Trip; 14. From Sail to Steam; 15. Last Days of Sail. With glossary, bibliography and index. Very good. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. 17.50